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THE RIGHT POLICY.

1t Is said that "there will be no boom
IN Sacramento until the land grants over
the American river are subdivided." This
is rot" sheer "rot" Shall we then do
nothing else until success crowns our efforts
i'll that direction? Is there no country
east and south of us? Is there no work
for the people to do rithin the city, in its
improvement
Has not the commerce and trade of Sac
ramento been built up independently OF
the land grants, that ought to be subdi-
vided and should bear their full and equal
share of public tax burdens? Is not the
anxiety of two or three water companies
to bring mountain storage water upon the
plains lands to the east and southeast OF
the city matter of any moment to Sacra-
mento? Shall we close our eyes to the
demonstrated marvellous results of the
marriage of land and water" will effect
upon the easterly uplands of Sacramento
county, and refuse to labor for county de-
velopment because the avenues to certain
grants in the north remain closed
Who is it that has the unblushing eff
frontery or idiotic stupidity to say there
can be no progress in Sacramento until
grant subdivision is effected? Who ven
lures thus to give the lie to the splendid
and expanding trade of Sacramento and
the spirit of improvement that now stirs
the people so deeply?
Let it not be sent abroad that any one
voicing the sentiment of Sacramento has so
spoken. Fer there is no truth in it. This
city is upon the wave of progress, and
will ride on to her highest possibility
Grant or no grant, division or no division,
coercion or persuasion applied to grant
owners, the city of Sacramento is not to be
diverted from the path of local improve
ment upon which she has entered.
Let the people make this their motto
Subdivision of land grants by all lawful
means, local improvement by all lawful
means; but local Improvement nor and
from this time forward, whether the grants
are broken up or not"
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A CASE IN POINT.

The Courier-Journal mentions a case in
point of the result of Mr.. Cleyeland's an
proval of the interstate commerce bill. Ii
tells the whole story of Democratic inter-
state protection, and the punishment Of
the consumer for the benefit of few pro-
ducers: Formerly Lebanon carried her
coal from Louisville; beyond Lebanon
they used wood for fuel Then local mines
east of Lebanon were opened at Jellico
The local demand was not sufficient to
keep the mines in operation all the year
In order to do this, and mine coal at a
minimum of cost, it was necessary to mar.
ket the surplus in Louisville. That was
only possible by giving lower rates tc
Louisville-where there was water CONNIE
tition from Pittsburg-than to Lebanon
which formerly got its coal from Pittsbure
via Louisville. That rate was named il
exists to-day, not to the detriment, but to
the advantage, of Lebanon and every other
local point. and Louisville has cheaper
fuel than before. No one is injured. vet II
is a system directly antagonistic to the
fourth section, as interpreted BY Mr..
Reagan
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Mrs. Billou a Noble Woman.


Editor Ne,cs: As several of the city pa
pers have published the confession of Hong
Di, the murderer, lest the uncharitable
should believe portion of the foul SLAM
der uttered by the murderer against his
innocent victim, pen these lines as a ref
utation of the most cruel and ill-timed
Islander ever uttered by human being
| have known Mrs. Billou for over a
quarter of a century. She came to
Colusa county when she was but a
young girl, and from that day to
the time of her cruel death, she, like
CAESARS wife, was above suspicion.
Her mission on earth seemed to be only to
do good. Her gentle and loving ways en-
deared her to the hearts of all with whom
she came in contact. Generous to fault,
she was ever ready to sacrifice her own
comfort to aid with gentle and loving
hands the sick and unfortunate. For her
many noble deeds of charity, for her untir-
ing efforts to mitigate the sufferings of hui
mainly, Tor her pure and upright life, her
name is inscribed upon page of snowy
white where no name is ever furnished, but
remains forever pure and bright.
She loved her husband, and in turn was
worshiped by him. Her children, obeying
the Divine command, loved and honored
her. They miss her gentle guiding voice,
and are sorely grieved at her absence.
And now this sorrow is enhanced tenfold
by the putrid breath of the foul slanderer,
who, trying to shield his worthless carcass,
utters words that make us wish that he had
resisted arrest, and that Schubert had
smothered the breath out of his putrid,
stench-giving carcass before its fetid odor
was waited upon the pure air to suly the
name OF an angel. H. L. STRATToN.
Tehama, May 26, 1887.
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A NEW LABOR PROTEST.

An entirely new order of strike has de-
veloped away up in Naugatuck The ply.
sicians of that place agreed that their To-
cal fee should be 81; for a visit to the SUI
burbs 81 30, and for neighboring towns
from 81 to So, according to distance
Thereupon the Knights of Labor gathered
themselves, and pronounced the schedule
to be I" an outrage upon Gods poor and a
bare-faced attempt to rob the public" The
bowling absurdity of the protest is APP
parent at glance. The knights claim
the right of trades to agree upon and
enforce schedule rates for labor, but DENY
to the doctors the exercise of these same
rights for the use of their brains. They
forgot or ignored the fact that the profess
slonal man, as well as the laborer, NAV
serve whom he pleases, and that if the fee
asked does not tally with the patients idea
of what the service is worth, he has the
great American privilege of going "to
some other shop" for his physic. The
knights forget or ignore the fact that the
physician spent the best years of his youth
In acquiring the knowledge necessary to
his vocation, and perhaps gave up the best
years of his early manhood while waiting
for the public to gain confidence in his
ability. They forget or ignore the fact
that the physician is dependent upon the
misfortunes of others, and assumes the
cares and responsibilities of his own en-
ployment, while the Knights are concerned
IN the conduct of business that rewards
their labor, only so far as to draw their
wages, regardless of the fact that very
often the business may not pay profit.
They forget or ignore the fact that there
Is large percentage of labor by the
physician that returns him no reward ex-
cept the consciousness of a good action
timely done.
There is no comparison to be made be-
tween the skill of the physician and the
manual labor of the mechanic. The one
Is as honorable as the other, but the rules
by which the rewards of one are to be
measured can have no application what
ever in the case of the other Medical
science is not the mistress of price lists or
labor unions, nor will it give the world
new disciples to evolve the best means
of ameliorating hum;n suffering, if
the rewards of its votaries are to be
graduated by the schedule manual skilled
labor fixessfor its compensation. If the
Knights keepon protesting against skill and
brains, and the inalienable right of men
to employ their talents as they choose,
and for what they choose, within the law,
they will make their order a laughing
c+ooI-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-28
A FOOTHILL SCHEME.
Proposition to Irrigate Fine Foothill
Eruit lands

The Excelsior Water and Mining Com
pany, CT Smartsville. Yuba county, has
nearly completed its extensive canals for
irrigation purposes. The system of bitches
are so run that they can readily irrigste at
least $4,000 sores of land. The company
has expended considerable money in this
enterprise. and has met with every en-
enlargement from the landowners, who
are anxious to irrigate, knowing full well
that it will increase the value of their land
100 per cent.
Thousands OF acres, which otherwise
would have been used only for grazing
purposes, will now be covered with fruit
orchards and clover Fields. Situated as this
locality is, at an altitude of about 800 feet
and in the most productive belt i'll the
State, with plenty of water for irrigation,
a climate that cannot be surpassed and soil
equal to the high-priced lands of Southern
California, and with the enterprise OF the
Excelsior Company in running its bitches
over such vast tract of land. there can be
no doubt but in short time the tide of
immigration will turn this way. The lands
here will produce anything that can be
grown anywhere in the State, including
the orange and the lemon from four to six
weeks earlier than in Southern California.
There are several large tracts of land
owned by different parties, who offer rea-
sonable inducements to colonists or indi-
viduals desiring to locate. Good land can
b bought from $40 to S25 per acre
which is a very low figure, considering the
natural advantages possessed to max this
a wealthy and prosperous section. If the
same energy were displayed ten years ago
by the people here in improving their land,
planting orchards and vineyards as they
show now, we would have boom here
equal to that of Los Angeles county, but
the people are awakening to that fact, and
are going to work with will, knowing full
well that the day is not far distant when
they will be fully repaid Cor. S. 7. Ehans-
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let no dog be hanged without aseertaining
his deserving, and examining every fact
that is worthy of being accepted in his de-
Tense. But in the name of the wives and
mothers of the land, every one of whom is
exposed to like assault by numbering Chi
namen, give the reputation of the dead
woman a chance" also. Give her fair
fame the full credit of faith founded ON a
long life of upright walk, until beyond all
question and shadow of doubt it is shown
that. she was infamous Let men with
wives and daughters stand in the market
places and brand as unmanly, inhuman
and bestial, even the entertainment of SC
much as suspicion against her, upon the
unverifed chatter of the covering wretch
who sent her unshriven to the grave, and
sought to beat out the brains of her child
as q supplement to his crime
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SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

President Stanford and General Man
ager Towne of the Southern Pacific Com
pany left for Los Angeles on Thursday.
The Auditor and Judge Lawler counted
the coin in the City Treasurer's safe on
Thursday, and found $8S6,097 II, the exact
amount the books called for.
Paddy Ryan claims to have deposited
81 900 to fight Kilrain, the Eastern pugilist,
to whom Sullivan is to resign the dog
collar" emblem of championship.
The fire on Friday morning destroyed
Granz's furniture factory on Brannan street
and the onyx marble yard of j. & F. Kesseler
adjoining. The entire loss will be about
$4,000.
f. L. Blithers, the ex-Minister of Finance
of Unity Lodge, No. 81, Knights of Pythias,
was arrested on Wednesday night on a
warrant charging him with felony embez-
Element.
Edward Kohler, who was run over on
the 23d of January last by a street-car of
the City Railroad Company, and consider
ably injured, has commenced a damage
suit against the company for $4,000.
The Sheriff has received official notifca-
ton that appeals to the Supreme Court have
been taken in the cases of Lee All Chuck
and Alexander Goldenson, under sentence
of death. The appeals stay, of course, the
executions.
At the Fourth of July celebration in
Oakland Senator John z. Jones will de-
liver the Grafton, Rev. Charles L. Mel will
be the poet. and George Allen Watson will
read the Declaration of Independence. A
regetta will be held on Lake Merritt in the
afternoon by the Oakland Canoe Club.
Ellen Splaine, former tenant of the
dwelling of Henry Vrooman, at 25S Eighth
street, has brought an action for $4,000
damages against him on account of an ac-
cldent which occurred last March, by
which, as she declares, through the I'M
soundness of a back stairway, she was
thrown to the ground and greatly injured,
perhaps permanently.
1t is feared that death may possibly re-
suit from the frightful accident that oc-
Cured to Edward B. Freeze last Sunday
morning near the Summit station. Freeze,
who is about "a years old, is well known
in athletic circles. Last Monday Dr. Lane
amputated the right leg above the knee,
and thought that the left foot would also
have to be taken off. Young Freeze is in
very critical condition, and his chances
for recovery and death are about equally
divided
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A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE FOR sACRA-
MENTO

We invite attention to the third paper
of the series the REcoRD-UNIoN is pub
fishing explanatory Of the towns and coun-
try in Central and Northern California.
The first of these valuable papers was de-
scriptiye Of Gridley and the surrounding
country; the second of Chico and its envir-
ons and the third relates to the Citrus
City of the north, Oroville, the wonder
full progress it has made, the wealth of the
country surrounding it, the success of cit
rus fruit cultivation there, and full ac-
count of the colony successes in that vicin-
ity. The paper, which is fully illustrated,
has been prepared at great expense by this
journal, and from data gathered, as in all
the other cases, on the ground and after
patient investigation and long observation.
We call especial attention to the Orc
vile paper because it marshals the evil
dences of one of the most remarkable
" booms known in any section of the
State. The advancement of Oroville is
such as to excite far more than surprise.
What little money and great deal of
energy has done there, supplemented by
the marriage: Of land and water in
economic irrigation, almost surpasses be-
lief, and the record reads like tale of the
fancy. But it is cold, unvarnished fact. 1t is
a hint to Sacramento that ought to double
the strength of the " boom" spirit here.
If Oroville, within a single year, can do all
she has, what may not Sacramento accom-
plish with her great wealth, transporta-
ton facilities, established trade and I'M
surpassed climate, and her splendid OPP
portunities for irrigation.
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RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION

When the nation was young and com
paratively weak, it sent the invitation
abroad for other people to come to is
shores to populate its territory, man its
industries and develop its resources. There
grew out of this invitation and the broad
sense Of human liberty and the rights of
men which prevailed in the nation, the
sentiment that America was an asylum for
all oppressed, and this expanded into the
false idea that aliens possessed the inalien-
able right to enter our household. But
their sentiment was never of the written
law of the land, nor can it be shown that
it attained the force and vitality of
unwritten law. 1t was rather privilege.
continued at will only, that foreigners
without restriction might come to us and
become of us. As the nation has grown
stronger and the current of immigration
greater, the sentiment of invitation has
retired in public esteem until it is no
longer unpopular 10 antagonize it or de-
mand that limitations be put upon it.
The conditions of to-day differ so vitality
from those of fifty years ago, the drift of
immigration has so greatly augmented,
the need for new blood has so much
lessened, and the demand for large
influx of foreign workers to develop
the country has so declined, that the Amer
lean people are now asking whether it is
any longer wise to leave the doors wholly
open? All the conditions of to-day,
abroad and al home, tend to swell the tide
OF immigration to immense proportions,
far exceeding anything of the past, and to
make some of thenew elements coming and
to come menacing to our institutions. Such
considerations as these move representa-
tive journals like the Chicago Current to
ask, If, since there is limit to all things.
that of foreign immigration has not come?
II, indeed, there is not limit to the
strength of American institutions and
American humanity? 1t is now very gem
orally conceded that such restrictions as
We have upon immigration may be wisely
increased, to the exclusion of unde-
sirable elements, and that the duty
which is first due TO those of our own
household commands US to put further
limitations upon the incoming of more
foreign people, and also upon the av-
ship. The question has become one of the
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greatest national importance, but it does
not, as our contemporary says, become OF
necessity a political one. The better
thought of the land on the subject is found
TO exist, irrespective of political parties,
and to have vitality, irrespective of the
policies that defines party lines. This is
certain, that the question has passed out
of the realm of prejudice, of partisanship
OF selfishness, and up into the atmosphere
of craftsmanship, and, as the Current re-
marks, is to engage hereafter greater wis
dom and more discreet and well-directed
labor than has yet been given it.
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1T CONSOLIDATES.

Toledo is lake city" 1t has the
benefit of both water and rail Transports
ton. Yet Toledo is opposed bitterly to
the fourth section of the interstate com
merce law. Why? Because Toledo is a
manufacturing center and grain gather
ing and distributing point, and the new
law gives Chicago such advantage with
her lake transportation that she can over
shadow Toledo which is dependent upon
both rail and water So the tendency of
the new law is to consolidate business at
few places where great interests are already
fixed, and where the unhampered water
routes name the minimum rates for car
rage.
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THE fearful calamity in Paris, by which
one of its chief theaters was destroyed by
fire, and several hundred lives lost, recalls
the case of the burning of a Vienna
theater few years ago. In that instance, as
in this, the authorities exerted themselves
to conceal the truth as to the number OF
lives lost. They reported that 200 persons
were burned, but ii is known now that
over 400 fell victims to the flames. So,
too, at Paris, We are told that 266 lives
were lost bv the burning of the Cemique,
but it is added that the police interpose
obstacles to the ascertainment of the actual
truth. 1t is safe to say that nearer 400
than 200 we're cut off by the flames.
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THE RESULT OF DEMOCRATIC LAW.
MAKING.

The protection by law of any community
Of the common country against the natural
commercial competition of another com
munity, is un-American, indefensible and
dangerous exercise of paternalism.
Yet that is precisely what the interstate
commerce bill does. 1t protects some great
trade centers at the expense of lesser ones
1t protects traffic over waterways at the ex-
pense of carriage by rail; it protects few
manufacturers and dealers at the expense
OF the entire consumer class.
The enforcement of the law must be at
the expense of the masses. When it helps
Canadian commerce, it is done by impeding
the commerce of the United States. When
it strikes down the competition that sends
products forward at the low rate, it pun
ishes every man who consumes goods OF
any description that are thereby raised in
price, without any additional compensation
whatever to the labor that stands behind
the production.
Recently MIR. Reagan, in speaking of the
bill, used this significant language:
No Government on earth would dare to pass a
law to prevent the carriage of its commerce on
the natural waterways, and yet that is what
in substance, your Commission is asked to 40
by the railroad companies.
1t would be interesting to hear from that
gentleman of single instance in which
the suspension of the fourth section has
had the effect of increasing the charges of
freight carriage by water. The assumption
of Mr.. Reagan is error of fact. The truth
is succinctly stated by the Com9er-Jouraal :
The fourth section says that railroads shall
not meet water competition at points where
they touch the coast or the river, unless these
extremely low rates aresmade universal. The
ehect Is that the law places restrictions and
embarrassments on all lines competing with
water lines, which gives to the water lines a
monopoly at water points and denies to the in
terror any benefit from water rates.
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To-pAx,s LEADING NEWS TOPICS.

Dr.. McGlynn positively declines to report at
Rome.
Three persons were killed and many injured
BY railroad accident last night in Pennsyl-
yania.
The President and his party have reached
their destination in the Adirondack Mountains.
Rouvier thinks he VIII be able to form new
French Ministry. Bou'anger seems to be the
bone CT contention.
Sixty bodies have been recovered fiom the
ruins of the Paris fire.
Evictons are going on in Ireland and Wales,
the peasants desperately resisting
The jury in the embezzlement case of ex-
Supreme Court Clerk Mccarthy last evening
disagreed and were discharged.
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IL Chicago there was building strike.
The Hod-carriers' and Bricklayers' Asso-
Citations thercupon resolved that their
members should not remain idle, but look
in other directions for employment The
associations now report that a majority of
their members have taken the advice
given, and have secured employment at
better wages, for the most part. This is a
way of striking that has some virtue in it.
If the wage-winner is dissatisfied, let him
quit his employer, if he will but instead
of hanging about the place of labor and
endeavoring to coerce the employer into
doing otherwise with his own than he
wishes, or in endeavoring to keep Others
from filling the vacant places, let him look
for new avenues through which he NAV
reach employment and surprise his late
employer by his success. AS rule the
workingman can go out into the world and
make greatly better terms for himself than
any trade union can make for him.
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all Western interior cities from this BEN
eft. And so We find such journals as the
Inter Ocean contending that the law will
break down what Chicago terms artificial
trade eenters, such as St. Paul and Mime
apolis. That is to say, these latter places
are to be crushed that Chicago may benefit.
But as the New York Eeening Post puts it:
Railroads have transformed the geography
of the country by giving to the interior
the benefit to large extent of water
transportation for long hauls, and no law
that will injure city like St. Paul to
build up Chicago will stand"
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IT CANNOT STAND.

Chicago journals (the Times excepted
make battle for the interstate commerce
law, but in every instance the argument
runs from the selfish center. As an East
ern contemporary says: Under the old
system, when competition between rail and
water reduced the transportation charge to
a low figure, the Chicago rate was taken as
the basis of rates from all other points, and
the interior cities had the benefit of the
reduction" But the new laws shuts cut